[citizenredstater9271]

This is scary stuff. I can only imagine what's going to happen when the gov. starts mandating everyone be chipped.

[OCC]

I predict this lawsuit will be just the tip of the iceberg," said Dr. Katherine Albrecht, a consumer advocate and expert on adverse reactions associated with implantable microchips.

The USA rules when it comes to lawyers!

[sinanju]

Did Timothy James McVeigh ever sue the Army for the microchip he claimed they implanted in his but-tocks?

Seriously, there might be something to this. I know microchips get soaked in some extremely nasty solvents when the circuit boards go through the etching process.

[bunkerhill7]

MERCK SUED: HomeAgain® PET CHIP IMPLICATED IN CANCER FOUND IN CHIPMUNKS

[ThunderSleeps]

I don't buy it. The chips are completely passive. They only radiate when scanned by a (much more powerful) scanner RF field. These are basically RFID tags embedded in a glass carrier. I'll bet these people cherry-picked their data and/or used statistics to see what they wanted to see. My dog is chipped and I never gave it a second thought.

Consider this, if by some wild stretch of reality the RFID tag field in the pet chip is responsible, we'd all be dead already from the RFID tags all around us.

[Soothesayer9]

By then there wont be any government.

[nametrader]

I hate to think about what they could add to flu shots,or childrens vaccinations.

[1010RD]

How do they determine the lifetime earnings of a cat?

[Gorzaloon]

"Based on the alarming number of microchip-linked cancers we're discovering

Looking at the cases the site shows, and given the number of microchips implanted, this appears to be just another litigation lottery. Words like "Alarming", etc. show a PR desperation.

My pets have always been chipped, and Yes, if something happened to them, there would be hell to pay- But I know of many, many pets who were recovered and saved by the chip. I know of none who had trouble.

There are a lot of hungry people out there with motives, and all these "issues" must be viewed with skepticism.

They chose an emotionally loaded topic, targeted to an audience easily stampeded by emotion, and did it deliberately, betting that Merck is big enough to pay them off and make them Go Away.

[Right Wing Assault]

This is legal BS.

Let's look at some facts instead of flying off the handle with emotional doomsday reactions.

First, the chips are encased in a glass tube, sometimes with a plastic 'anchor' on one end. These materials are biocompatible.

The chip does not touch the critter. I does not have a battery. It does not send out radio signals. It is passive.

The only time it does anything is when a scanner signal of the right frequency is picked up by its internal antenna. Only then does the energy of the signal allow the chip to send back an identifying signal.

This is most likely a coincidence and a lawyer trying to make himself and his client a lot of money.

Here's a chart showing the 'adverse reactions' to RFID in pets. And this is with over 4 million of them in place. This is from the AVMA website.

[unixfox]

I can only imagine what's going to happen when the gov. starts mandating everyone be chipped.

Not to worry, by that time the gov will have found a cure for cancer. /sarc

[catnipman]

Unfortunately, the epidemic of cancers and hyperthyroidism in cats has been caused by the adjuvants added to most cat vaccines to "boost" their effectiveness since cat vaccines now use killed-virus vaccines and don't work well without adjuvants. Adjuvants are extremely nasty molecules that deliberately "irritate" the immune system to unnatural super-levels of hyperactivity.

People, if you love your cats, then don't vaccinate them at all if they're indoor-only cats. Only vaccinate if they go outdoors and are likely to be in contact with wild animals or feral cats. And then vaccinate them only with adjuvant-free PureVax vaccines.

http://www.critteradvocacy.org/Feline%20Recommendations.htm

http://www.drugs.com/vet/purevax-feline-rabies.html